Environment China is a weekly bilingual podcast from the Beijing Energy Network. The show features conversations with advocates, entrepreneurs, and experts working in the environmental field in China. We are looking to learn how they do their work, what new strategies and solutions they have found, and why now is the right time for real and positive changes in China’s environmental field.

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In recent years, "citizen science" has spread across the globe,
allowing people from all walks of life to contribute to scientific
studies. For all-encompassing issues such as climate change, this
approach has been instrumental in gathering new kinds of data from
hard-to-access front lines.

Dr. Peng Kui, Program Manager at the Global Environmental
Institute (GEI), has spearheaded a number of citizen science
projects in China's Sanjiangyuan region in the west of the country,
which hosts the headwaters of China's largest rivers. Meanwhile,
Elizabeth Tyson, an expert on global citizen science initiatives at
the Wilson Center, has been exploring citizen science initiatives
in China and working with partners such as Peng Kui to help design
innovative win-win projects wherein local people gather data on the
health of these rivers and receive job training in sustainable
industries.

About the Podcast

Environment China is a bi-weekly podcast from the Beijing Energy Network (BEN), a grassroots organization created to help understand and tackle China’s energy and environmental challenges. The podcast features conversations with advocates, entrepreneurs, and experts and aims to highlight innovative solutions for improving China’s environment. We explore how they do their work, what strategies and solutions they have found, and why now is the right time for real and positive progress for China’s environment.